American Football - American Football (LP3) (Light Blue Vinyl)

American Football - American Football (LP3) (Light Blue Vinyl)American Football's LP3 The quietest voices can be the most durable. American Footballs original triumph, on their 1999 self titled debut, was to reunite two shy siblings: emo and post rock. It was a pioneering album where lyrical clarity was obscured and complicated by the stealth musical textures surrounding it. Like Slints Spiderland, or Codeines The White Birch, even Talk Talks Laughing Stock, American Football asked far more questions than it

but no less powerful

If you like what you hear on You’ll Have To Lose Something

Tyler Long on bass and Joe Reinhart (Algernon Cadwallader

whirring mooncraft sounds

to De La Soul

singles with Daniel McNeill (White Denim) and a “final wrapping-up” with engineer Jim Vollentine (Spoon

Pete Thomas and Bill Ryder-Jones all make guest appearances on - as do the words of John Cooper Clarke

" While there's certainly no lack of weird electronic noodling

Canada's dream pop

The latter’s Daniel Fox mixed several of the tracks on the album alongside Robin Stewart (Giant Swan) and the album was mastered by Heba Kedry (Ryuichi Sakamoto

it was originally released in june 1989 on vinyl and again in the same year on the compilation release '13 songs' along with the debut ep 'fugazi'

Formed in 1977 by Leeds University students Jon King (vocals)